Overview: At the risk of sounding dramatic, I firmly believe that the scene above represents the demographic crisis of technology in the classroom. In this scene, the H.M.S Titanic is steaming toward an iceberg that will cause the ship previously considered "unsinkable" to shatter in two. Had the captain taken more caution in dangerous waters, the people who died that night might still be alive. So here is the comparison: The Titanic is the U. S education system. The water is all the available technologies of modern society (particularly the internet and apps) and the surrounding icebergs are a full embrace of technological assimilation in the classroom. We are each the captain of our own Titanic. Technology in the classroom is just as much a fact of life as the ocean and ice in polar regions, and we must determine our approach with serious caution if we want to safely navigate ourselves and our students to the other side. I elaborate in my screencast.
Screencast: Screencast 9
Big Question: What degree of technological skepticism is healthy for an educator?
Interactive Site: The site I chose is called Edmodo. Edmodo is a full-scale learning platform designed for high school classrooms and similar in function to administrative systems like Sakai or Blackboard. It is designed to provide students with an online workspace where they might feel more comfortable sharing (e.g blog posts) than they might in a classroom. Teachers can post assignments, reminders, and interact with students.
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